HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JOHN HUMPHRYS, 75. The Cardiff-born BBC journalist (pictured) has presented Radio 4’s Today programme since 1987. Last year, he earned £650,000 a year, but agreed to take large pay cuts amid a gender pay gap row. Meanwhile, he has been economising on shampoo, shunning it for 15 years: ‘The first couple of weeks are pretty horrible — more grease than a chipshop fryer — but then the good bugs go to work and the grease gradually vanishes.’ ROBERT DE NIRO, 75. The double Oscarwinner, star of The Godfather Part II and Raging Bull, joined a New York street gang as a boy and was nicknamed Bobby Milk, as ‘he was pale and strange as milk’. He and Marlon Brando are the only actors to have won Oscars for playing the same character (The Godfather’s Vito Corleone).